Greetings, Decibel readers!
In a digital world choked with unbearable AI-slop, and fairly a little bit of content material that may as effectively be AI-slop, I would like you to know I’m nonetheless right here for you. Each week, you’ll be able to depend on me to push my slim view of what’s value listening to and solid it as if I characterize the overall consensus. And there’s no annoying voiceover.
And no name to motion, aside from to take heed to music.
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Abhorrent Expanse – Enter the Misanthropocene
Usually I’m not a lot for the avant-garde, however Abhorrent Expanse‘s improvisational work of sonic madness is a particular exception. Unsettling, unnerving and unpredictable — but additionally unrelentingly heavy and unpretentious.
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Anthrodynia – Unspeakable Horrors Emanating from Inside
You actually can’t have sufficient cavernous, gloomy dying metallic like this in your life. That is the Canadian band’s debut album, a powerful assertion of goal that aligns them with the musical traditions of Incantation and Disembowlment. Menacing and moody in equal measure.
Stream: Apple Music
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Castrator – Coronation of the Grotesque
Deliciously brutal excellence from the well-renowned New York-based act. Coronation of the Grotesque takes the perfect of gory, brutal dying metallic, and laces it with extraordinarily efficient riff- and solo-work harking back to late-90s giants like Nile and Hate Everlasting.
Stream: Apple Music
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Grand Cadaver – The Rot Beneath
The newest in HM-2 pedal-worship from the Swedish supergroup, that includes Darkish Tranquility‘s Mikael Stanne on vocals. That is the band’s followup to 2023’s Deities of Deathlike Sleep.
Stream: Apple Music
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Unleashed – Hearth Upon Your Lands
Talking of Sweden! Fifteen albums on and nonetheless into glory Unleashed rides! Simple, grinding dying metallic, simply as Odin meant.
Stream: Apple Music